730 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1919. 



COMPARATIVE HIGH AND LOW SPOT RUBBER PRICES. 



August. 



FIJINTATIOMS. 



1919.» 



$0.45 @$0.4154 



.44 @ .39M 



Upriver, fine . 

 Upriver, coarsi 

 Islands, fine . 

 Islands, coarse 

 Cameta 



.55 @ 

 .32 @ 

 .47J^@ 



.54 

 .3VA 

 ■47 'A 



.70 a 

 AS'Ad 

 .6l'Ai 



.00/4 



.47^ 

 .59^^ 

 .2954 

 .30/. 



'igured only to .\ugu 



THE MARKET FOR COMMERCIAL PAPER. 



In regard to the financial situation, Albert B. Beers, broker in crude 

 rubber and commercial paper, No. 68 William street. New York City, 



"During th 

 5H to 6 pe 



irt of August the demand for paper was 



:-of-to\vn banks, the best rubber names 



d those not so well known 6 to 6J^ per 



part of the month rates eased a little to about 



WEEKLY RUBBER REPORT. 



GUTHRIK & CO., LIMITED, Singapore, report [July 10, 1919]: 



Notwithstanding advices of declining values in London and ^ 



the rubber auction opened yesterday to a firm market. There w 



HERMA> 

 Dur 

 showed only 



the 



Currency— $1 



BATAVIA RUBBER MARKET. 



MARSMAN & CO., Batavia, report [May 15-Jun 



nth unde 

 ittle 



rket 



in almost all qualities. The quotati 

 showed a downward tendency. The i 



the foreign 

 closed uitii the following quotations: 



In Batavia Equivalent 



Per ;4-kilo.' Per H-kilo in 



Guilders. U. S.- Currency. 



Fine pale crepe 1.17 $0,468 



Prime smoked sheet 1.18 .472 



Fine pale crepe, basis 75 per cent 1.06 .424 



Off crepe a.89@1.12 .356(3.448 



•Quoted per 'A-k:lo (LI lb.) in Dutch Indian guilders ($0.40). 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES RUBBER EXPORTS. 



An official report from Kuala Lumpur states that 7.094 tons of rubber 

 were exported from the Federated Malay States in the month of June, 

 compared with 7,308 tons in May and 5,161 tons in the correspondii 

 month last year. The total export for six months 

 50,717 tons, against 40,557 tons in 1918 and 39,476 

 are the comparative statistics: 



1917. 



January to.is 5,995 



February 7,250 



March 7,088 



April 5,955 



May 7,179 



lune 6,009 



Totals 



39,476 



An 



STRAITS SETTLEMENTS RUBBER EXPORTS. 



al report from Singapore states that 5,059 tons 



which 948 



tlements in the month ot Jul 

 6,515 tons in the correspondi 

 months of the present 

 and 39.516 ' '"■ 



ents), were exported from the Straits 



5 compared with 15,845 tons in Maj 



lonth last year. The total export fc 



82,725 tons, against 42.180 tons in 



1917. Appended are the comparative statistics: 



1917. 1918. 1919. 



lanuary tons 3.562 4.30Z 14.404 



February 6.495 2,334 15.661 



March 8,299 8.858 2C.908 



.April 6,103 6.584 10,848 



Viav 6,282 13,587 15,845 



fune ■- 8,775 6,515 5,059 



Totals 39,516 42,180 82,725 



January 1 to July 7. 



Crude rubber: 

 From Straits Settleiiic 



nd othci coun 



1918. 



,471,419 



,419,061 



3,107 



1919. 



1.379,322 



705,489 



Crude rubber: 

 To Uuited Kingdn 

 Belgium 



lids 7.925,985 



■New South Wales 



Uuited States 



Canada and Newfoundland 



100,642 

 434,749 

 213,614 



17,072,967 

 29,120 

 330,010 

 89,795 

 91,700 

 35,710,780 

 260,016 

 2,313 



'These figures include cyrgoes for 

 ports of Australia, and dependencie 



(Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber of Con 



PLANTATION 



To Holland k 



England 



United Stati 



Singapo 



Australia 

 Other con 



Totals 

 Ports of orii 

 Batavi 



Samarang 

 Soerabaya 



FROM JAVA. 



Four months 

 Ended April 30. 



1919. 



120,000 

 2,901,000 



176,000 



6,621.000 



36,000 



1,985,000 



43,000 



8,729,000 14.130,000 



PLANTATION RUBBER EXPORTS FROM MALAYA. 



(These figures include the production^ of the Federated Malay States, but 



of Ceylo 

 January 1 to March 31, 



To United Ki 



The Continer 



Japan 



Ceylon 



United St: 



and Canad 

 Australia . . 

 China (He 



kong) . . . 

 Other count 



50,000 

 90.528,400 



16.629,197 3,512,400 



'. '. '. '. '. '. 2Vl',206 



32,702,797 



6,507,200 



8,334,000 



894,024 



17,473,221 5,776,000 141,171,631 



For the year 1916 135,535,954 7,167,346 3,660,840 30 643,565 177,007,705 



For the year 1915 86,067,657 7,898,984 ""' 



For the year 1914 43,534,177 5,218,379 2,052,620 21,91 

 (Compiled hy Barlow & Co., Singapore.) 



